Master's programme Economic and Business Analytics 2022W
Objectives
The main objective of this module is to provide the basic methodological tools in economics, data mining and operations research (descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics). The students have a profound microeconomic view of the internal organization of firms. They are able to apply data mining methods and tools to systematically analyze business processes and corporate data, aiming at linking the data to discover potentially new knowledge on frequent patterns and/or discontinuities. They are able to model and solve basic decision and optimization problems with appropriate tools. They are familiar with the most important quantitative empirical methods and can apply these tools to different problems in business and economics.